The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston has released its Research Review, Jan-Jun 2010, with summaries of the following:
- Public Policy Discussion Papers
- Person-to-Person Electronic Funds Transfers: Recent Developments and Policy Issues (highlighted February 24)
- Mobile Payments in the United States at Retail Point of Sale: Current Market and Future Prospects
- Working Papers
- Insuring Consumption Using Income-Linked Assets
- What Explains Differences in Foreclosure Rates? A Response to Piskorski, Seru, and Vig
- A Short Survey of Network Economics
- The Asymmetric Effects of Tariffs on Intra-Firm Trade and Offshoring Decisions
- Public and Private Values
- Moral Hazard, Peer Monitoring, and Microcredit: Field Experimental Evidence from Paraguay
- The Sensitivity of Long-Term Interest Rates to Economic News: Comment
- Wage Setting Patterns and Monetary Policy: International Evidence
- Public Policy Briefs
- State Government Budgets and the Recovery Act
- The Role of Expectations and Output in the Inflation Process: An Empirical Assessment (highlighted June 28)
- Conferences
- Oil and the Macroeconomy in a Changing World
Sadly, not much there of relevance to a fixed income portfolio manager. but the first two articles might inform the TTC Presto/Open debate … assuming that any of the participants want an informed debate, which is a bit of a long shot.